From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 14/14] mm/shmem: fix truncation of files containing only swapin-error markers
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:03:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261027-fixes_shmem-v2-14-86a00952acb9@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261027-fixes_shmem-v2-0-86a00952acb9@kernel.org>
It might not be very common, but we can end up with shmem files that are
composed only of swapin-error/poison markers.
Such markers are not counted in info->alloced. Consequently,
shmem_setattr() can skip shmem_truncate_range(), leaving the markers
behind.
Truncating the file to zero and growing it again will result in reads
failing with -EIO instead of returning zeroes.
Check whether the mapping contains entries, in addition to
info->alloced, before skipping the truncation. Keep the info->alloced
check so that shmem_recalc_inode(), called at the end of
shmem_undo_range(), can fix up accounting after reclaim has emptied the
mapping.
Fixes: 6cec2b95dadf ("mm/shmem: fix infinite loop when swap in shmem error at swapoff time")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Gregory Price (Meta) <gourry@gourry.net>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
---
mm/shmem.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 2800dbdf031c1..3c42b4f253b5e 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -1591,7 +1591,8 @@ static int shmem_setattr(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
if (oldsize > holebegin)
unmap_mapping_range(inode->i_mapping,
holebegin, 0, 1);
- if (info->alloced)
+ /* Swapin-error markers are not counted in alloced. */
+ if (info->alloced || !mapping_empty(inode->i_mapping))
shmem_truncate_range(inode,
newsize, (loff_t)-1);
/* unmap again to remove racily COWed private pages */
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-27 13:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-27 13:03 [PATCH v2 00/14] mm/shmem: various (urgent?) fixes David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-27 13:03 ` [PATCH v2 01/14] mm/mempolicy: charge shared policy nodes David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-27 13:03 ` [PATCH v2 02/14] tmpfs: keep the quota soft limits of an unused id David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-27 13:03 ` [PATCH v2 03/14] tmpfs: preserve explicitly disabled quota limits David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-27 13:03 ` [PATCH v2 04/14] mm/shmem: honour F_SEAL_EXEC when an ACL is set David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-27 17:34 ` Pratyush Yadav
2026-10-27 13:03 ` [PATCH v2 05/14] hugetlbfs: enforce F_SEAL_EXEC in setattr David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-27 13:16 ` Muchun Song
2026-10-27 13:03 ` [PATCH v2 06/14] mm/shmem: stop retrying folios that cannot be split David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-27 13:03 ` [PATCH v2 07/14] mm/shmem: preserve data in clean folios when splitting fails David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-27 13:03 ` [PATCH v2 08/14] mm/shmem: discard whole new large folios on fallocate rollback David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-27 13:03 ` [PATCH v2 09/14] mm/shmem: rescan after nonuniform folio splitting David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-27 13:03 ` [PATCH v2 10/14] mm/shmem: fix truncate hang in large swap entry David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-27 13:03 ` [PATCH v2 11/14] mm/shmem: preserve allocation errors when swapping in large entries David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-27 13:03 ` [PATCH v2 12/14] mm/shmem: fix truncate loop after boundary swapin failure David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-27 13:03 ` [PATCH v2 13/14] mm/shmem: fix accounting of swapin-error markers David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-27 13:03 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
2026-10-27 13:20 ` [PATCH v2 00/14] mm/shmem: various (urgent?) fixes Baolin Wang
2026-10-27 13:27 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-27 13:30 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
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